Hi Guys....
I am running EMUI 5.0.1 on Honor 8. I can't find a way to disable - freeze apps as it was possible in previous Android versions (Until Android 6 at least). The only thing I can find is the option to disable apps after screen lock.
But this is not what I want, and also does not close background services of the app. For example, there is a health tracking app that is running continuously on the background... I want to stop it without uninstalling it... Isn't there a way?
PS: I have seen the ADB method to stop background apps, but I can't believe that such a useful feature was disabled from recent android versions... Also please note that the system apps that came installed on the phone (like Youtube, Browser, etc..) DO have the disable option in app Info.... The user Apps have only force stop and uninstall...
You can make it a system app by for example usibg lucjy patcher if you have root (I think). Just don't use it for illegal purposes.
I can understand there are workarounds, like rooting the phone... I want to know if there is an official no superuser way, like there was in previous version of Android
mitsos1os said:
I can understand there are workarounds, like rooting the phone... I want to know if there is an official no superuser way, like there was in previous version of Android
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Greenify can hibernate them so they won't run in the background
Works for me: https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/ and the video
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@marv_in_lbc I do not want to uninstall the apps.... And also not talking about system apps... I want to disable them and without the use of 3rd party app... All I am asking if this is doable as it was in previous android versions...
I am not even sure if Huawei has just disabled this option in their firmware, but this must't be the case, since the option is available but only for system apps. From my previous experience this was available in all apps in previous android versions.
(I missed this the first time I read your post, but that Health app that's always running -- this method stops that as the Health app is one that I "removed" using this method.)
Watch the video.
The title is a little misleading as the apps are not actually uninstalled, but rather removed from use from the primary user - in effect, freezing them. But, for all intents & purposes, the app is uninstalled. When you look for the app in the app drawer, it will not show up. When you start your phone, the app(s) will not start. The app(s) will still be technically installed, just not available for use by the primary user (user 0).
That method worked with my Honor 8, Xiaomi Redmi 4x, Moto X Pure, Moto E & an old ZTE phone.
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mitsos1os said:
@marv_in_lbc I do not want to uninstall the apps.... And also not talking about system apps... I want to disable them and without the use of 3rd party app... All I am asking if this is doable as it was in previous android versions...
I am not even sure if Huawei has just disabled this option in their firmware, but this must't be the case, since the option is available but only for system apps. From my previous experience this was available in all apps in previous android versions.
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Depends upon the OEM. System apps include apps like YouTube & Email, but also vendor apps like Huawei Health. Some will allow you to disable, while a few others will allow complete uninstalling - it depends upon the OEM (and in some cases, the carrier, at least in the US)
A system app that can't be disabled or uninstalled usually can only be removed if the device is rooted. The method shown in the video doesn't require root & persists after reboots - like the app is actually uninstalled.
The video explains it all.
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What is it? Can I disable them?
Why do you need to disable them?
gm007 said:
Why do you need to disable them?
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If it do not function for anything, at least not consume RAM.
Not the Webview if you use GApps such as Play Store, etc, Facebook yes if unused
Disappointed in Sony for including com.facebook.appmanager and com.facebook.system as uninstallable components. My Z5 came with the Facebook app already installed (Customized DE firmware). I never even ran the app (I don't do facebook) - uninstalled it the second I spotted it but these two processes remain and can only be disabled, not uninstalled.
Feck off Facebook!
I deleted webview once on my old Z1, system became unresponsive.
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andiling said:
Not the Webview if you use GApps such as Play Store, etc, Facebook yes if unused
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Tks !!!
I keep a real clean phone. I don't use FB either and have it disabled. But I discovered this file or application and as fast as I would shut down and delete cache and data it would reload itself. This action alone made me suspicious of it and I wanted it off my phone or at the very least disabled. On another forum it was recommended to install "Package Disabler Pro" at a cost of $.99 and I tried it. In the notes and warnings you have to use this carefully least you make the phone unusable but I "disable" these two persistant "Facebook" files and they have not come back. My phone works fine too. Then I went after the damn Sprint/Samsung installed voicemail program that keeps wanting you to upgrade and then it had a persistant flag that kept coming up saying "We had forced upgrades too but this one is necessary". I said no to that too and with this program finally have turned it OFF.
Hope this helps.
Lisa
BR4DOKYBrazil said:
What is it? Can I disable them?
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To completely disable them ("temporary" uninstallation) use Debloater http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294
or learn how to use the
Code:
pm hide
command
As suggested, i would not disable Android Webview.
Always do a BACKUP of your personal files before disabling system apps : if you are not rooted and disable the wrong package, you'll get in bootloop and will have to reset the phone.
lol answered in a resurrected old thread,
Lisa stop making jokes please XD
For those of us that have updated to official MM what apps/setups are everybody running. If root continues to become more elusive it's good to have root like or alternative apps to fallback on. Some of my favorites right now are Nova launcher, adguard to block ads, silent boot and click light.
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sabresfan said:
For those of us that have updated to official MM what apps/setups are everybody running. If root continues to become more elusive it's good to have root like or alternative apps to fallback on. Some of my favorites right now are Nova launcher, adguard to block ads, silent boot and click light.
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I used adguard too because really adblocking is all I need root for, but it really slows my internet down. Other than freezing bloatware, a few essentials; rom toolbox, quickboot and other simple tools that make use of root.
Titanium Backup is still my only real "I need root for this" app.
Supposedly, MM has backup (data) to Google, so this isn't needed any more. Does anyone have more info on this?
Kalash said:
Titanium Backup is still my only real "I need root for this" app.
Supposedly, MM has backup (data) to Google, so this isn't needed any more. Does anyone have more info on this?
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I beleive lollipop did to, but I think it needs support from the developer. It's been hit or miss for me. LG backup backs up data though. I used it and it works pretty well not quite as good as titanium, but good enough
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masondoctorjt said:
I beleive lollipop did to, but I think it needs support from the developer. It's been hit or miss for me. LG backup backs up data though. I used it and it works pretty well not quite as good as titanium, but good enough
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I just did the .zip upgrade flash to MM - and didn't root (so I can have Android Pay for a bit....)
So... after a manual phone setup, I think I'm wanting TiBu back. >_<
I set up the data backup thing - and it said to wait 24 hours to see what's backed up. I don't really think there's a "lot" of stuff I need to setup again that's not just accounts - but things like the home screen (TSF Shell) and PieControl (coolace) definitely take the longest. If I can't get my pie setup, I can't use the phone >_< All those have long press functions that are built into muscle memory at this point. I've tried swapping out apps from time to time, and end up just going back to this setup. Having TiBu just for that backup/recovery is probably worth it. If MM backs it up though, I think I can do without root.
Adblocking is what I want the most from root. Adguard seems to be a major battery sucker (I've not looked at how to optimize it, but it is the second highest user of battery behind the screen on my device). I'm also not a fan of having to pay as much as they want for blocking ads in apps....just seems disproportionate. I also want to kill off some of the bloatware as well, but that is a distant second. Silent boot is a great find...
Kalash said:
Titanium Backup is still my only real "I need root for this" app.
Supposedly, MM has backup (data) to Google, so this isn't needed any more. Does anyone have more info on this?
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It only restores apps and app versions from the playstore. If you sideloaded any apps they won't restore. Lg backup can restore all apps.
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baturcotte said:
Adblocking is what I want the most from root. Adguard seems to be a major battery sucker (I've not looked at how to optimize it, but it is the second highest user of battery behind the screen on my device). I'm also not a fan of having to pay as much as they want for blocking ads in apps....just seems disproportionate. I also want to kill off some of the bloatware as well, but that is a distant second. Silent boot is a great find...
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Been using adguard trial and it does drain the battery, but it's only $10/year for premium. For bloat disabling, there's a de-bloat tool I believe in the G4 forum.
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It only restores apps and app versions from the playstore. If you sideloaded any apps they won't restore. Lg backup can restore all apps.
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Been using adguard trial and it does drain the battery, but it's only $10/year for premium. For bloat disabling, there's a de-bloat tool I believe in the G4 forum.
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The debloat tool is awesome. Blocking some of LG's junk is great. Thank You!
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I love nova but the fp doesnt work when using nova's gesture to turn the screen off
Hi guys. Now that we have root for the 2017 fire tablet HD, let's share the best apps, tweaks, mods, modules, optimizations etc to get the most out of the tablet.
I just rooted my HD 10 and think this thread is a great idea.
The first thing I usually do after getting root is to install AdAway to block most ads:
https://f-droid.org/repo/org.adaway_56.apk
I want use Nova as the default launcher. Is there a way to disable or uninstall the Fire launcher completely with root? The Hijackthis utility kind of works, but once in a while the Fire launcher will still show when pressing the home button.
Update: I found out how to disable the Fire launcher following the instructions from this thread here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/development/tips-tricks-root-t3310569
It appears that many of the tips for the older gen HD 10 tablets also apply to the 2017 model. The thread I mentioned in my previous post has instructions on how to disable Fire launcher and Amazon service that are safe to disable via adb. Also I recommend installing Google Play and disabling OTA services using the script in this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/tool-disables-ota-lockscreen-install-t3715320
I also installed some of my favorite root apps such as Titanium Backup and Kernel Adiutor. Also grabbed modded Youtube with no ads (non-root) here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71133073&postcount=3
How do we disable all Amazon apps that aren't necessary to get the fastest, smoothest user experience?
Is there a way to change the lock screen and replace it with one that supports pattern unlock instead of a PIN?
Is there a way to permanently disable all Amazon system apps that may launch at startup and run in the background? I want to disable them to get maximum speed and performance from the device. Maybe what we could do is find an app that shows us what's currently running in the background and using up ram, and then figure out a way to permanently disable and or Uninstall them.
These are the system processes that I found running. There are quite a few Amazon-related processes here. Have a look.
The Amazon-related process that I've identified are:
Wake Word Service
System UI
Amazon Metrics Server Application
Fire Content Manager Service
Here Positioning
Precog
Identity mobile platform
Fire Amazon platform
Fire Amazon communication services
Audio stream provider service
Amazon webview metric services
Whisperplay daemon
Documents
Content support manager
Amazon device settings
Crash monitor
Documents
Read the posts in this thread (started by DragonFire1024) to get an idea about what can (not) be uninstalled.
We just gained root, and we do not yet have a reliable method to backup/restore partitions. I would urge you to err on the side of caution and, if you really have to, just control the apps that autorun. You can use the startup manager in ROM Toolbox Lite or All-In-One Toolbox to find out what's running at boot.
Before you start, backup your apps+data using TiBu.
Have you tested the recovery procedure detailed in this post? What's your fallback option if your 10 HD gets bricked? All things considered, a reasonably snappy tablet running some bloat is better than a brick you can't recover from.
These are the apps that I currently have installed on my fire tablet. Feel free to share your apps, too!
Guys,
So I'm using the free version of nova launcher, and one thing that I don't like is that I don't get app notifications. For example, if I get a like on Facebook or a message on Facebook messenger, there's no notification alerting you. Usually you'd see like a "1" on the app icon signaling that there's one new message. Apparently that's because I'm using the free version of nova launcher and the paid version has this functionality built in. I don't want to buy the paid version only to have it not work. Can anyone confirm that the paid version of nova launcher will give me notifications on the app icons, or is this just not supported on fire OS?
*UPDATE*
I think these things are called "badges".
I have rooted my Fire HD 10 2017, installed SuperSU and now of course it does not pass safety net anymore
As I was playing some games from Google Play on the tab, this kind of annoys me, but is no dealbreaker at all.
Has anybody made some experience with hiding root / magisk or something else on the Fire HD 10?
i had posted this information on the main 'rooted fire hd 10 7th generation' thread already but thought it was quite useful regarding nova launcher, playstore and using a child profle:
if you want to use use widgets with nova launcher, just convert nova to a system app. the easiest way i found to achieve this is using the link2sd app.
to use google playstore in a different user profile (e.g. parent profile with child restrictions, as i don't like the freetime child profile) you can also convert playstore to a system app (and clear dalvik dalvik cache,also with link2sd). it showed up in the fire launcher on the other profile right after a reboot. just needed to log in again.
maybe you can use it on a freetime profile as well like that (launch it from GoToApp), but i won't try it out now.
androingo said:
i had posted this information on the main 'rooted fire hd 10 7th generation' thread already but thought it was quite useful regarding nova launcher, playstore and using a child profle:
if you want to use use widgets with nova launcher, just convert nova to a system app. the easiest way i found to achieve this is using the link2sd app.
to use google playstore in a different user profile (e.g. parent profile with child restrictions, as i don't like the freetime child profile) you can also convert playstore to a system app (and clear dalvik dalvik cache,also with link2sd). it showed up in the fire launcher on the other profile right after a reboot. just needed to log in again.
maybe you can use it on a freetime profile as well like that (launch it from GoToApp), but i won't try it out now.
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I will test this out today and let you know if I got it to work. The only thing is, I don't have a child profile, I have a secondary adult profile.
Once I got root I put adaway, titanium backup, modded pandora. I also put on the viperaudio. Can do that by adding busybox via https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.busybox&hl=en
and you'll also need to use something to set selinux to passive for viper to work. I did this by installing Kernal Auditor https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grarak.kerneladiutor&hl=en
I used Kernel Adiutor to emulate init.d and used the below script and it works to make it permissive on boot and viper driver shows enabled to confirm it
#!/system/bin/sh
setenforce 0
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I will test this out today and let you know if I got it to work. The only thing is, I don't have a child profile, I have a secondary adult profile.
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The play store hack didn't work for me after following your instructions regarding link2sd. The play store doesn't appear on my other login account.
hm, that is strange. i did two other things before i had root:
trying to install the 4 apks on the other profile, but only the first 2 could be installed: com.google.android.gsf.login.apk and com.google.android.gsf.apk.
and i entered the following command via adb in the main profile:
adb shell pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS
but ony after coverting all of the 4 required apks to system apps it worked. did you convert all 4?
if not, maybe one of the steps before make the difference?
androingo said:
hm, that is strange. i did two other things before i had root:
trying to install the 4 apks on the other profile, but only the first 2 could be installed: com.google.android.gsf.login.apk and com.google.android.gsf.apk.
and i entered the following command via adb in the main profile:
adb shell pm grant com.google.android.gms android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS
but ony after coverting all of the 4 required apks to system apps it worked. did you convert all 4?
if not, maybe one of the steps before make the difference?
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Oh. That must have been what I did wrong. I only converted the play store apk to a system file. I'll do the other three now.
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Oh. That must have been what I did wrong. I only converted the play store apk to a system file. I'll do the other three now.
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Well now the play store shows up on the other login, but when I tap on it, nothing happens. Also, in link2sd, there's no option to clear "dalvik cache." Only "clear cache" which I did.
I notice that ever since I turned the 4 Google apps into system apps with link2sd, my Facebook app no longer works. It gets stuck in the screen.:
How do I disable a system app, please? For example, on my previous phone, an Xperia Z2 running Android 6.01, it was a simple case of going into settings, apps, selecting the app (such as the default SMS Texting app, which couldn't be uninstalled) and then there was a button to disable it.
Why disable it? I prefer to use Textra, Disabling an app that can't be installed usually has the benefit of stopping the app from running in the background, removing its updates, and therefore releasing resources and salvaging some space from an app you weren't going to use. But, I can't see a way of doing this on my Poco X3.
Thanks for considering my question.
The following thread may contain an answer to your question, check it out.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=4169497
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BigClaw said:
How do I disable a system app, please? For example, on my previous phone, an Xperia Z2 running Android 6.01, it was a simple case of going into settings, apps, selecting the app (such as the default SMS Texting app, which couldn't be uninstalled) and then there was a button to disable it.
Why disable it? I prefer to use Textra, Disabling an app that can't be installed usually has the benefit of stopping the app from running in the background, removing its updates, and therefore releasing resources and salvaging some space from an app you weren't going to use. But, I can't see a way of doing this on my Poco X3.
Thanks for considering my question.
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This is most easiest way to remove bloatwares on MIUI, find full details at here: https://technolobe.com/2020/08/17/how-to-remove-bloatware-from-any-xiaomi-device/
Their YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fTEcyu2IH54
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So I'm tired of crap being added to my phone without my consent like Google one it was added recently to my phone and is really annoying when editing photos and now I got this cov*d alerts I really don't want this crap on my phone is there a way to remove them or prevent Google from adding it?
Unistall or disable it.
blackhawk said:
Unistall or disable it.
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I can't I tried using a root uninstaller
ShadowFox141 said:
So I'm tired of crap being added to my phone without my consent like Google one it was added recently to my phone and is really annoying when editing photos and now I got this cov*d alerts I really don't want this crap on my phone is there a way to remove them or prevent Google from adding it?
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Debloat/Disable System Apps
So you got your new shiny realme device but you hate bloatware or want to disable system apps so you can use 3rd party apps instead? Follow the steps below: THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE ROOT HOWEVER MAKE SURE NOT TO DISABLE IMPORTANT SYSTEM APPS. WIPE...
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^ Posted in the Realme 7 forum, but it works on every phone I've used.
Search up "package name viewer" on the Google Playstore to get an app that lets you see the name of packages.
OrthodoxOxygen said:
Debloat/Disable System Apps
So you got your new shiny realme device but you hate bloatware or want to disable system apps so you can use 3rd party apps instead? Follow the steps below: THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE ROOT HOWEVER MAKE SURE NOT TO DISABLE IMPORTANT SYSTEM APPS. WIPE...
forum.xda-developers.com
^ Posted in the Realme 7 forum, but it works on every phone I've used.
Search up "package name viewer" on the Google Playstore to get an app that lets you see the name of packages.
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Thanks man I'll give that a try
ShadowFox141 said:
I can't I tried using a root uninstaller
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This...
Home - Package Disabler
The only NON-root solution that let’s you disable any unwanted packages that come pre-installed / installed with your phone / tablet.
www.packagedisabler.com